Keyword: pseudosciencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pseudoscience/
en-usTue, 6 Dec 2016 18:00:44 GMTFocus Forum15Fires set by Ice Age hunters destroyed forests throughout Europehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3502018/posts
Large-scale forest fires started by prehistoric hunter-gatherers are probably the reason why Europe is not more densely forested. The finding -- by an international team, including climate researcher Professor Jed Kaplan of the University of Lausanne and archaeologist Professor Jan Kolen of Leiden University -- was published Nov. 30 in the journal PLOS ONE. Deliberate or negligent This research has generated new insights on the role of hunters in the formation of the landscape. It may be that during the coldest phase of the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers deliberately lit forest fires in an attempt to...Science Dailyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3502018/posts#commentTue, 6 Dec 2016 18:00:44 GMTHere&#x92;s how much of the Arctic you&#x92;re personally responsible for melting (LOL alert)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3488760/posts
Dirk Notz calculates that for every person who drives a car 1,000 miles or takes a round-trip flight from New York to London, three square meters (about 32 square feet) of sea ice vanishes from the Arctic. Researchers have long documented that human-fueled carbon dioxide emissions contribute to the overall warming of the planet &#x97; and, by extension, accelerate the diminishing of sea ice in the Arctic each year. But in a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, Notz and a colleague detail the complex set of calculations that allowed them to estimate how much Arctic sea ice melts...Washington Post (what else??)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3488760/posts#commentThu, 3 Nov 2016 19:22:28 GMTStudy details sugar industry attempt to shape sciencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3469947/posts
The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar&#x92;s role in heart disease &#x97; in part by pointing the finger at fat &#x97; as early as the 1960s, according to an analysis of newly uncovered documents. The analysis published Monday is based on correspondence between a sugar trade group and researchers at Harvard University, and is the latest example showing how food and beverage makers attempt to shape public understanding of nutrition. In 1964, the group now known as the Sugar Association internally discussed a campaign to address &#x93;negative attitudes toward sugar&#x94; after studies began emerging linking sugar...Associated Presshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3469947/posts#commentFri, 16 Sep 2016 07:03:38 GMTProfessors advise students to drop class if they question climate changehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3465224/posts
DENVER &#x97; The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is coming under fire after three professors warned their class that there would be no debate on human-caused climate change and that any students who disagree should drop the course. The professors, who are team-teaching the fall online course Medical Humanities in the Digital Age, issued the memo after some students expressed concerns about the first online lecture on climate change, according to the College Fix, which obtained a copy of the email. &#x93;The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change...The Washington Timeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3465224/posts#commentFri, 2 Sep 2016 02:17:15 GMTCoal Faces Three Hurdles and Steady Declinehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432638/posts
Coal&#x27;s future as a major energy source is being undermined by market forces, government regulations and moral arguments.Inside Climate Sciencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432638/posts#commentSat, 21 May 2016 14:24:50 GMTUnion of Concerned Scientists seeks to shield scientists from public scrutinyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411437/posts
The group has been a fierce advocate for transparency, regularly championing investigations that rely on public documents to hold government officials accountable. But over the past year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Cambridge-based advocacy group that represents thousands of scientists around the country, has campaigned to limit the scrutiny of scientists who work for public universities and agencies through public records requests. These scientists, the group says, are increasingly being harassed by ideological foes who seek to unearth documents that would derail or sully their work with evidence of bias. &#x93;We don&#x92;t want to work in an environment where...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411437/posts#commentSun, 20 Mar 2016 14:09:35 GMTParched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise: study [what we didn&#x27;t realize....]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3396096/posts
Miami (AFP) - As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing sea level rise, NASA experts said Thursday. Satellite measurements over the past decade show for the first time that the Earth&#x27;s continents have soaked up and stored an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, the experts said in a study in the journal Science. This has temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent, it said. &#x22;We always assumed that people&#x27;s increased reliance on groundwater for...Yahoohttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3396096/posts#commentFri, 12 Feb 2016 12:43:07 GMTNASA Chief: Global Warming is Real Because I Have Cancerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385169/posts
A senior scientist at NASA has announced in the New York Times that he has terminal cancer. This is sad. What&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s sadder, though, is that he has chosen to exploit his personal tragedy for the purposes of promoting climate change alarmism. Here is how Piers Sellers (pictured) &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; acting director of NASA&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s Earth Sciences division &#xE2;&#x80;&#x93; begins his New York Times article: I&#x27;m a climate scientist who has just been told I have Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This diagnosis puts me in an interesting position. I&#x27;ve spent much of my professional life thinking about the science of climate change, which...Breitbarthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385169/posts#commentMon, 18 Jan 2016 16:16:41 GMTHumans could evolve webbed feet if sea levels rise, scientist claimshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3383018/posts
The perils of climate change are well known, but rising sea levels could also alter human evolution, scientists have claimed. Rising sea levels could force communities to live in underwater or semi-aquatic towns which could change out physiology. Dr Matthew Skinner a paleoanthropologist from the University of Kent, claims that humans could evolve to have webbed hands and feet and less body hair so they could move quickly through the water. Our eyes would even become more like cats, so we could see in the murky gloom of seas and rivers and our lungs would shrink as we became used...Telegraphhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3383018/posts#commentWed, 13 Jan 2016 07:42:04 GMTSen. Ted Cruz: &#xE2;&#x80;&#x98;Climate Change&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99; Term Is Trojan Horse For Big Government
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Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz told NPR in a Wednesday interview that the term &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;climate change&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; is the perfect &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;pseudoscientific theory for a big-government politician who wants more power.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;In the interview, Cruz recalled the global cooling arguments from the 1970s, telling NPR&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep that some of the same researchers worrying about global cooling as a threat in the 70&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;s, are the same people now telling people global warming is a problem today.The Texas senator asked Inskeep if he remembered back 30 or 40 years ago when politicians were telling people &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; &#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6; that we were...Daily Callerhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371622/posts#commentSat, 12 Dec 2015 04:20:28 GMTFaked peer reviews prompt 64 retractionshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3328517/posts
A leading scientific publisher has retracted 64 articles in 10 journals, after an internal investigation discovered fabricated peer-review reports linked to the articles&#x92; publication. Berlin-based Springer announced the retractions in an 18 August statement. In May, Springer merged with parts of Macmillan Science and Education &#x97; which publishes Nature &#x97; to form the new company Springer Nature. The cull comes after similar discoveries of &#x91;fake peer review&#x92; by several other major publishers, including London-based BioMed Central, an arm of Springer, which began retracting 43 articles in March citing &#x22;reviews from fabricated reviewers&#x22;. The practice can occur when researchers submitting a...Naturehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3328517/posts#commentMon, 24 Aug 2015 15:02:01 GMTHumans are &#x91;unique super-predator&#x92;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3327198/posts
Humans&#x92; status as a unique super-predator is laid bare in a new study published in Science magazine. The analysis of global data details the ruthlessness of our hunting practices and the impacts we have on prey. It shows how humans typically take out adult fish populations at 14 times the rate that marine animals do themselves. And on land, we kill top carnivores, such as bears, wolves and lions, at nine times their own self-predation rate. But perhaps the most striking observation, say authors Chris Darimont and colleagues, is the way human beings focus so heavily on taking down adult...BBC Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3327198/posts#commentThu, 20 Aug 2015 19:47:23 GMTNobel Laureate Says Obama&#x27;s &#x27;Dead Wrong&#x27; on Global Warminghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3308863/posts
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who supported President Barack Obama has said that he does not believe global warming is a problem, and has openly criticized the president for his position on the issue. &#x22;I would say that basically global warming is a non-problem,&#x22; Dr. Ivar Giaever announced during a speech at the 65th Nobel Laureate Conference in Lindau, Germany, last week, according to Climate Depot. Quoting Obama&#x27;s warning that &#x22;no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change,&#x22; Giaever said it was a &#x22;ridiculous statement.&#x22; &#x22;I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you&#x27;re wrong....Newsmaxhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3308863/posts#commentTue, 7 Jul 2015 20:42:23 GMTHow climate change deniers got it right &#x97; but very wrong (Now at 99.9% &#x22;consensus&#x22;)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3301149/posts
It turns out the climate change deniers were right: There isn&#x92;t 97% agreement among climate scientists. The real figure? It&#x92;s not lower, but actually higher.msnbchttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3301149/posts#commentWed, 17 Jun 2015 13:56:40 GMTBeing obese may boost heart attack victims&#x27; chances of survivalhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3298081/posts
Being obese could actually improve the chances of survival after a heart attack because excess fat appears to fight heart disease, a study has shown. Scientists have been puzzled as to why people classed as very overweight lived longer after a heart attack than those with a healthy Body Mass Index. However, a study of tissue collected from patients undergoing heart surgery found that fat surrounding damaged blood vessels releases chemicals that start to battle heart disease.National Posthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3298081/posts#commentMon, 8 Jun 2015 15:55:08 GMTSen. Whitehouse: Bring RICO Charges Against Climate Wrongthinkhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3297445/posts
Sen. Whitehouse: Bring RICO Charges Against Climate Wrongthink By Walter Olson on 6.5.15 Another step toward criminalizing advocacy: writing in the Washington Post, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) urges the U.S. Department of Justice to consider filing a racketeering suit against the oil and coal industries for having promoted wrongful thinking on climate change, with the activities of &#x93;conservative policy&#x94; groups an apparent target of the investigation as well. A trial balloon, or perhaps an effort to prepare the ground for enforcement actions already afoot?The American Spectatorhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3297445/posts#commentSat, 6 Jun 2015 04:43:27 GMTHave We Passed the Point of No Return on Climate Change?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3278810/posts
Dear EarthTalk: What is the best way to measure how close we are to the dreaded &#x22;point of no return&#x22; with climate change? In other words, when do we think we will have gone too far? &#x97; David Johnston, via EarthTalk.org While we may not yet have reached the &#x93;point of no return&#x94; - when no amount of cutbacks on greenhouse gas emissions will save us from potentially catastrophic global warming - climate scientists warn we may be getting awfully close. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution a century ago, the average global temperature has risen some 1.6 degrees...Scientific Americanhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3278810/posts#commentMon, 13 Apr 2015 21:57:51 GMTNext for Steyer: put GOP candidates on climate change hot seathttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3276392/posts
San Francisco activist Tom Steyer&#x92;s NextGen Climate Super PAC Monday announced the billionaire Democrat will wage a campaign to put Republicans on the &#x93;hot seat&#x94; about climate change and spend &#x93;what it takes&#x94; for an aggressive new high-tech &#x93;war room&#x94; to track &#x97; and attack &#x97; GOP candidates in 2016. The program, based at the NextGen headquarters in the Financial District &#x97; with satellite offices in Washington, D.C., and other cities &#x97; aims to make climate change a &#x93;top tier&#x94; issue next year. It will focus its firepower on turning environmental concerns into a &#x93;wedge issue,&#x94; especially with young voters,...The San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gate Bloghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3276392/posts#commentMon, 6 Apr 2015 21:52:48 GMTSo, What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3276200/posts
In 2005, I changed my mind about climate change: I concluded that the balance of the scientific evidence showed that man-made global warming could likely pose a significant problem for humanity by the end of this century. My new assessment did not please a number of my friends, some of whom made their disappointment clear.At the 2007 annual gala dinner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based free-market think tank, the master of ceremonies was former National Review editor John O&#x27;Sullivan. To entertain the crowd, O&#x27;Sullivan put together a counterfeit tale in which I ostensibly had given a lecture on...Reasonhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3276200/posts#commentMon, 6 Apr 2015 14:06:21 GMTWhat Sharyl Attkisson told me about vaccineshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3256123/posts
What Sharyl Attkisson told me about vaccines By Jon Rappoport February 11, 2015 http://www.nomorefakenews.com &#x93;The complete failure of this year&#x92;s flu vaccine, even by conventional standards, is a major scandal at the CDC. To distract the press and public, we now have a fake epidemic of measles, and pressure to take the vaccine, take all vaccines all the time. This is called a psyop. Psyops build fake realities.&#x94; (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) As my readers know, I&#x92;ve written many articles about vaccines, covering: mandatory shots; the pseudoscience of vaccination; severe adverse effects; poisons in shots; disastrous vaccination campaigns, and so...Jon Rappoport's Bloghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3256123/posts#commentTue, 10 Feb 2015 18:26:00 GMTNewsboys Co-Founder: I&#x27;m Now an Atheist, Richard Dawkins&#x27; Had an Influencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3252257/posts
The co-founder and former guitarist of the popular world-famous Christian rock band the Newsboys has officially renounced his Christian faith and is calling members of the current version of the band hypocrites. George Perdikis, who founded the chart-topping Christian band in 1985 with his friend Peter Furler, wrote an op-ed on Wednesday published by the website Patheos explaining how he transformed from a guitarist in one of the most popular Christian rock bands of all-time to a cosmology-enthused atheist. &#x22;I always felt uncomfortable with the strict rules imposed by Christianity. All I wanted to do was play rock and roll,&#x22;...Christian Posthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3252257/posts#commentFri, 30 Jan 2015 15:20:21 GMTPoll Shows Giant Gap Between What Public, Scientists Think [Obey Your Overlords]http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3252012/posts
The American public and U.S. scientists are light-years apart on science issues. And 98 percent of surveyed scientists say it&#x27;s a problem..... Scientists are far less worried about genetically modified food, pesticide use, and nuclear power than is the general public, according to matching polls of both the general public and the country&#x27;s largest general science organization. Scientists were more certain that global warming is caused by man, evolution is real, overpopulation is a danger and mandatory vaccination against childhood diseases is needed.ABC "News"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3252012/posts#commentThu, 29 Jan 2015 22:17:10 GMTStop blaming mental health for gun violence. The problem is gunshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3241267/posts
After the mass shooting at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Mel Robbins, writing for CNN, argued that blame lay not with the National Rifle Association, but with &#x93;the shooter and the mental health services he did or didn&#x92;t get.&#x94;washingtonpost.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3241267/posts#commentSat, 27 Dec 2014 16:26:03 GMTRed States Are Getting a New Shade of Redder-people who deny climate change most likely to sufferhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236427/posts
&#x22;.....Yuma,Colorado, a farming town of 3,500 people near the Kansas border, celebrated last month as homegrown Republican Cory Gardner was elected to the U.S. Senate. Gardner, a high school football player and the son of a farm equipment dealer, defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall to help the GOP gain control of the Senate in the second-most expensive congressional race of all time.Gardner represented Colorado&#x92;s 4th Congressional District for four years, an expansive territory that covers the mostly flat and rural eastern third of the state. Farmers there mostly grow corn to feed cattle, and water comes from the quickly...Slatehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236427/posts#commentFri, 12 Dec 2014 09:28:28 GMTLying Pervert Alfred Kinsey Makes The New Republic&#x91;s Top 100 List of Thinkershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3232079/posts
The New Republic magazine celebrates its 100th anniversary with a special section called &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;100 Years, 100 Thinkers.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;Unfortunately, the categories into which these &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;minds who&#xE2;&#x80;&#x99;ve defined our century&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; are helpfully slotted are almost parodically First World, elite-uptown-liberal:&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Architecture.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Environmentalism.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Songwriting.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Diplomacy.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;And of course, &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;American Civil Rights.&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; (Zzzzzzzz&#xE2;&#x80;&#xA6;.)Unless you count &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Medicine,&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D; no hard sciences were deemed worthy of consideration.An alien browsing this section would be forgiven for assuming that man never set foot on the moon.But who cares when someone named Alice Waters &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;made (local) lettuce sexy!&#xE2;&#x80;&#x9D;(And besides, The New Republic assures us that &#xE2;&#x80;&#x9C;Martians need only watch one of [Richard Pryor&#x27;s] concert...Pajamas Mediahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3232079/posts#commentSat, 29 Nov 2014 18:22:02 GMT